Yu Yang

Yu Yang was born in 1979 in the city of Ulanhot in Inner Mongolia Province. He is a member of the Cold Ink Art Group, and currently lives and works in Beijing.

Cold Ink Art Group is an artistic collective that was established in 2013 by a group of young artists, who were born in the 1970s and 80s and completed theirtraining at the Material Experimentation and Expression Studio of Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA, Beijing). The group aims to explore the concept of ink-wash and further the discussion on contemporary art from a global perspective while continuing to seek innovative ways to express their unique artistic vision.

Yu captures the traditional aesthetic vision on ink paintings as well as the relationship between water, ink and paper, and creatively reorders them into minimalist shapes in three dimensions. Yu reorders the relationship between space and plane with the delicate vicissitude of ink and the musicality of alternating Chinese paints. His works combine the elements from cold abstract in the West and ink art in the East, simplifying and deconstructing the painterly concepts of traditional art, which interprets the essence of ink itself, and also brings out an overlapping sense of depth.

Yu Yang’s works have been exhibited in National Art Museum of China (Beijing), Long Museum (Shanghai) and Minsheng Art Museum (Beijing). His works are collected by important museums and organisations, including Ningbo Museum of Art (Ningbo), Guan Shanyue Art Museum (Shenzhen) and MGM Chairman’s Collection (Macau). In 2017, his works were featured in the Art in Residence projectco-presented by 3812 Gallery and colourliving and exhibited at the B&B Italia flagship store in Hong Kong alongside the state-of-the-art Italian designer furniture.

Source: 3812 Gallery